Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Great Regulars: Reading is always an excellent way

to cope with insomnia, and I think that the best poems to read when you can't sleep are epics. If you've already read the classics, let me direct you to a couple of contemporary poems that may do the trick: Derek Walcott's Omeros--which is truly an epic at more than 300 pages across seven books--revisits Greek myth and branches out to explore the slave trade and Caribbean history.

from Kristen Hoggatt: The Smart Set: Ask a Poet: Sleeper Hit

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